| 1988 - | The luckiest day of the decade, according to the Chinese, because the date - 8.8.88 - is a palindrome |
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| 1985 - | South African government assumed further powers to deal with unrest |
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| 1983 - | A militray coup was staged in Guatemala, central america |
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| 1981 - | The United States announced plans to produce the neutron bomb |
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| 1978 - | The United States launched its Pioneer Venus probe |
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| 1974 - | Richard Nixon resigned as US President, the first president to do so |
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| 1963 - | The Great Train Robbery took place, in which 2.5 million was stolen |
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| 1960 - | A militray coup was staged in Laos, asia |
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| 1940 - | The Battle of Britain began |
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| 1903 - | 3rd Davis Cup |
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| 1903 - | In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleve, Tigers Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park and forfeits game |
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| 1902 - | 2nd Davis Cup |
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| 1902 - | Frank W. Woolworth, the founder of Woolworth chain stores, died |
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| 1901 - | Ernest O Lawrence, US physicist, was born |
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| 1900 - | 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Mass, and won by US 2 days later |
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| 1786 - | Mont Blanc, Europe`s tallest peak, was climbed for the first time Swiss scientist Horace Saussure had offered a prize for the accomplishment of this feat |
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| 1786 - | Mt Blanc, the tallest mountain in Europe, was climbed for the first time |
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